I see, so those high levels can have fun fighting each other, while all the low levels who started late are nothing but fodder. How awesome for them.

How does that make you feel? You preordered the game, possibly months in advance of release, and yet by time you get into the game, some people are already in their 40s, even a few 50s. To me, that utterly sucks, and makes this the worst mmo launch i've ever experienced, and i've experienced a lot. This completely ruins the competitive side of things for me, and that's the part I enjoy most.

As someone who has taken part in many past mmo launches I say no, I would take the ingame queues and lag any day over the current mess of not being able to log in atall.

I agree that it is total fail the way they have launched this. I would much prefer ingame lag and queues than the current crap that's going on. To the people who say the game hasn't launched yet. YES IT HAS! The servers are up, and people are playing, that is launch, and most people are missing out on launch. The dec 20th date is all part of marketting. They announce 20th dec as the release date, but then offer an early launch to those who preorder, so they can get more preorders. The real launch has already happend.